Work
- 2020
- single channel video installation, color, sound
- duration: 10 min. 38 sec.
- 2020.RK.01
- 2022
- watercolor on paper
- 81,7 x 117,5 cm
- 2022.RK.05, GIFT OF THE ARTIST
- 2022
- Spit bite aquatint, burnishing, softground etching and letterpress
- 79 x 96 cm 2023.
- 2023.RK.06-08
- 2020
- line etching, aquatint, sugar lift aquatint, soft ground etching, spit bite aquatint, roulette and burnishing on paper
- 36 x 26 cm (25 parts)
- 2020.RK.03 1-25
- 2022
- six channel video installation
- duration: 29 min. 18 sec in collaboration with Margrét Bjarnadóttir and Bryce Dessner
- 2022.RK.04
Grand and compelling, yet also comical and offering perspective: this is the oeuvre of Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson (1976) in a nutshell. With large-scale video installations, operas and musical scores in addition to paintings and graphic work, he adopts a striking and unique stance in contemporary art. De Pont has recently acquired the intimate and confrontational video Me and My Mother, along with a surprising series of etchings and woodcuts.
Kjartansson – who also works with other media such as theater, music, painting, performance and literature – is especially known for his large-scale video installations. In 2009 he represented Iceland at the Venice Biennale with a memorable performance in which, as the stereotypical image of a romantic artist, he spent a half year drawing his model while drinking and smoking away.
Exhibitions
